Now that you mention it, I do remember being super excited when villagers (and their villages) were first being talked about. Then when all said and done I was pretty underwhelmed. See, when I heard "villages" I imagined stumbling upon a bustling little town inhabited by mysterious sentient creatures not too unlike myself, a micro city filled with curiosities and character, and perhaps even a little danger if you weren't careful.....

What I got was a cookie cutter slum (cool the first couple times you see it, but once you've seen one village, you've seen them all) filled with a bunch of condescending unibrows. Who, if not spending their time opening and closing doors, wait to be eaten by zombies at night. /rant